Roof Of Gurgaon High-Rise Collapses, 1 Dead, Several Feared Trapped

Gurgaon:

One particular person was killed and several other individuals have been feared trapped after the roof of a residential high-rise in Gurgaon’s Sector 109 collapsed on Thursday night time. The lounge in an condominium of the 18-floor Chintels Paradiso housing complicated first got here down, triggering the collapse of roofs and flooring straight underneath it, information company PTI reported.

A group of the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power, or NDRF, is working to rescue the trapped individuals. Visuals present rescuers in vivid orange jackets putting in a ladder to succeed in the higher flooring of the constructing.

“A drawing room on the sixth collapsed until the primary flooring,” Kaushal Kumar, a resident of the constructing, advised ANI, including the incident occurred in “Tower D” of the high-rise.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar tweeted he’s personally monitoring the state of affairs.

“Administrative officers, together with SDRF and NDRF groups are busy within the rescue and reduction work after the unlucky collapse of the condominium roof on the Paradiso Housing Advanced in Gurugram. I’m personally monitoring the state of affairs and I pray for everybody’s security,” Mr Khattar tweeted.

Administrative officers, together with SDRF and NDRF groups are busy within the rescue & reduction work after the unlucky collapse of the condominium roof on the Paradiso Housing Advanced in Gurugram. I’m personally monitoring the state of affairs and I pray for everybody’s security. pic.twitter.com/T6NdEtpIgm

— Manohar Lal (@mlkhattar) February 10, 2022

Residents mentioned Tower D, a part of which collapsed, was inbuilt 2018. The complicated has three different towers. The 18-floor Tower D has four-bedroom flats.

The housing complicated administration blamed the catastrophe on “negligence” throughout repairs for the “extraordinarily unlucky incident”, which passed off round 7 pm, PTI reported.